Yesterday (3 February 2010) I was out in the snow, sketching with my Moleskine book. Even though it was freezing cold I still managed to get a few sketches down before the water froze on the paper.
I was out there for around 5 hours, doing a few sketches and this little video of my walk:
My Moleskine book in the snow
Sketching snow tracks in the snow
Here are some of the sketches from the walk (approx. 5 hours )
Sketch of a tree
sled riding kids
As I was working I started getting the small ice crystals in the paint, as it can be seen here (vague)
I did a few more:
Woman with her dog
Finally I did this experiment, sketching a guy that passed by me, fast in watercolors to work with the way they froze: (Click on the image to see it large size)
Guy that passed by me, watercolors
Good day out sketching, even though the temperature was around 1-5 degrees Celsius
I especially like the change when the water is not drying up, but freezing – even though it gives a bit of trouble when the papers are put on top of each other (as can be seen in the last one)
Today (21 January 2010) I did a walk with my Moleskine sketchbook and watercolors, to the old Hippie world of Christiania, where the Hippies still try to live according to the dreams they agreed on, almost 40 years ago.
Here are my watercolor sketches from today:
Small hippie shop in Christiania - Copenhagen
By mistake I burned the sketch in the edge, when I tried to dry it on one of the open fires they have on the street
Two guys talking between a couple of large wood sculptures
It was freezing cold, lots of snow on the ground and my hands getting numb, so decided to go inside on a small cafe called “the moon-fisher” for a glas of tea.
The Hippie cafe "moon fisher" at Christiania (Moleskine sketch)
Back outside, I was heading down to the water, starting to sketch the amazing houses at Christiania
Christiania house between the old Copenhagen defense earth walls
Getting all the way down to the water, it was frozen and brave parents where trying to clear the snow from the lake to make a small ice skating area for the kids, while the low winter sun where disapearing behind the city (last watercolor sketch)
Kids ice skating in front of the Christiania houses down to the lake
It have been a cold day, today, but great to be outside and start to experimenting with combining walking with watercolor sketching in my Moleskine sketchbook… again
Right now it is the day before the big final day of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, where I am living and have been doing my illustrations for the last few years.
It is freezing cold outside, with snow and strong winds, and I have been working all day on my collection of free environmental illustrations.
The idea is to put together an collection of drawings that visualize some of the perspectives, thoughts and challenges we face.
here are a few examples of illustrations from the collection:
Animals gathering around the ark
Experts in book-towers
Asking for yet another planet
The whole collection can be seen and downloaded from:
Flickr (yahoo image site, with downloads, prints and links)
Google Picassa (Googles image site, with all the same options)
The whole collection is also on my own site here:
http://hikingartist.com/art/FreeEcoillustrations_g85.html
Best hopes from
Frits Ahlefeldt
Copenhagen – Denmark
HikingArtist.com
Why did spreadsheets get to rule the world?, why not art, poetry or music?
I wonder if it would it help the trees if they dressed up in ties and shirts?
Serious trees
My collection of illustrations and watercolors for download is right here:
Where I have my collections of:
Free cartoon printversions for download
All illustrations made by me: Frits Ahlefeldt
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